Spring Issue 2016

Spirit of NADA: A Report From the Letter from the editors

5th Philippine Annual Forum Held On
February 27, 2016 in Quezon City

by Lars Wiinblad, NADA-Denmark

n the past year, many of you have noticed and remarked

on an increase in the number of stories on the use of
magnetic beads. We appreciate the calls and emails that
have come in asking for more information, clarification,
and general curiosity about the how and why of the beads.
We are hoping to form what we are calling observational
research, something that all of us are collectively
participating in. For example, I recently gave a presentation
at a local nonprofit in Laramie which provides
comprehensive job training and psychosocial support to
single mothers reentering the workforce. Within a half
hour the women learned how to place a bead on the
reverse Shen Men point with each other. I encouraged
them to bring the beads home, to try with their children
and other family members.

Janet Paredes (left) with two ADSes from Tacloban and Michael
Smith. Tacloban is an area hit by the strongest typhoon in 2013.

ast year, we received an invitation to speak at NADA

Philippines 5th Annual Forum. For many years now,
we had been following the incredible work that Janet
Pimentel-Paredes and NADA Philippines has been doing,
particularly with trauma survivors, but this was the first
year that speakers from other countries attended their
forum.
NADA Philippines has traveled a great distance in a
short time. During martial law, under the Marcos regime,
acupuncture was illegal the National Peoples Army
(NPA) used acupuncture, and so anyone else who used it
would be associated with the NPA. It was not until 2008
that it became possible to become a certified acupuncturist.
But even before that in 2004, Janet Pimentel-Paredes came
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The program director called me today to say that she

knew the beads worked, but not how well they worked
the mothers couldnt stop talking about what an effect
the beads were having on their children, from better
behavior at school, to easier bedtimes. It gave them more
confidence because they had learned a tangible skill.
We encourage you to give the beads a try. Jo Ann Lenney
shares more about identifying the bead placement below.
We welcome your continued questions and hope to see
many of you in New Mexico.

And the Bead Goes Where?

When asked this question, Dr. Michael Smith told us first

of all that point selection with the bead seems to work
best when simplest or most animal-like. He said that
the Chinese never indicated how they developed point
selection perhaps they copied the mammalian animals

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who choose where to lie to give their pulse energy to
another needy friend.
He said that we can tell trainees what not to do with the
bead, but that we should not tell them what to do with it.
Rather we should ask them what they think is a good bead
placement on the ear they should use their own creativity
and initiative.
One trainee said to put it where it feels good. Another
said to follow the bead in. Tara, the head nurse at an inpatient rehab facility, put the beads on herself. Within a
few minutes, her sinuses cleared up. She sent me an e-mail
the next day saying, I love the beads! My nose is still
clear. I asked her to describe where to put the beads and
she said, Just put them where you think they should go.
I told Dr. Smith this story and he said was not surprised
were talking about the body wanting to heal itself. This
comes from life, not from school, so you are choosing
your own healing. Working with Qi is what we are
intended to do. Or to put it more simply, Nature wants
us to get it right.
If you need to give some instruction, you can tell
people to put their thumb on the front of the ear and the
forefinger on the back near the top of the ear. That will
pretty much give them an idea of where the reverse Shen
Men is. After that, they can follow their instincts. Dr.
Smith says that pictorial images are not relevant rather
the imaginary or energetic image is whats relevant.
At Lincoln, the clients children were in charge of bead
placement on Saturdays. My role was to lift them up so
they could reach the adults ears. At first, I concentrated
mainly on watching their placement, but eventually I
learned more by looking at their faces. They showed
curiosity and confidence and focus in what they were
doing. I try to replicate that now when I do a bead
treatment.

NADAs Mission

The National Acupuncture Detoxification

Association (NADA), a not-for-profit training and
advocacy organization, encourages community
wellness through the use of a standardized auricular
acupuncture protocol for behavioral health,
including addictions, mental health, and disaster
and emotional trauma. We work to improve access
and effectiveness of care through promoting
policies and practices which integrate NADA-style
treatment with (other) Western behavioral health
modalities.
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Dr. Smith said that the children liked giving the bead
treatment because they understood it, and they liked doing
it because I wasnt telling them what to do they were
using their own imagination and initiative.
As teachers, we need to accept our subordinate role in
our relationship to the people we are working with. We
must be comfortable with the vast and complex character
of bodily Qi.

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Outreach for NADA in Las Vegas With the

National Council on Behavioral Health

n March, I had the privilege

of attending the 16th
NatCon conference as an
exhibitor for NADA. I was also
a co-presenter for a breakout
session titled, Ear Acupuncture
for Behavioral Health: Its Easy
and It Works. With 5,000+
attendees present, this absolutely
felt like the industry conference for the behavioral health
field. NADA was given space to share with the North
Carolina company, Alternative Behavioral Health, headed
by Jeanne Supin. Supin is an acudetox specialist, a writer
and a leadership coach with a passion to get the word out
about the power and simplicity of the NADA protocol.

I have been trying for years to get NADA into this

conference, said Supin. In fact, in 2010, I asked Ken
Carter, former NADA president and an emergency
room psychiatrist with Carolinas Healthcare, to submit
a presentation proposal, but the conference organizers
felt the topic was too unconventional. Five years later,

by Sara Bursac

all I needed to do was mention

to those same organizers that I
knew a psychiatrist and medical
acupuncturist with NADA
expertise, and they jumped
at the chance to offer a panel
presentation. Last year, Supin
and her team provided more than
a hundred NADA treatments to
conference attendees out of her own booth, and this year
invited us to join her.
During breaks, our booth was packed with people,
which, for our small 8x 8 space, was a bit of a challenge.
But it worked people came back for a second and even
third treatment. Some also attended the presentation that
Supins colleague Teresa Baltzell, Carter, Supin and I gave.
We treated an additional 40 people at the presentation
and were grateful for the extra volunteer help from Nate
Hurse, NADA board member and trainer, who was in
attendance at the conference. And amazingly we
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Becoming an Acudetox Specialist in a

New Mexico Emergency Department:
A Nurses Perspective
The following
is a statement of
interest submitted
by Rheanna
Hoffman in the
application process
to join the annual
pre-conference
training, this year
in Albuquerque,
New Mexico.
Rheanna Hoffman

s a nurse, I view my role in the health of peoples

lives as comprehensive, no matter the scope of my
position in a given job. Currently, I work in an emergency
department (ED) of a Native hospital in Gallup, New
Mexico, a culturally wealthy, but
underfunded border town south of
the Navajo Nation.

populations. One of the ways that this violence gets coped

with and enacted out is through addiction.
Thus, in the ED, the most frequent emergency we see
is related to addiction, especially to alcohol and food.
Addiction-associated emergencies manifest as alcoholrelated motor vehicle accidents, domestic violence,
withdrawal, liver failure, cardiac disease, diabetes, and
obesity. But, zooming out, what is the basis of these
addictions? Are these addictions the natural result of
institutionalized and historical trauma? internalized
oppression? cultural genocide? unprocessed grief ?
the result of imposed patriarchy of Europeans that
systematically sought to obliterate the Navajo worldview
that upheld the feminine, the Mother, and women
altogether as leaders in all matters political, familial and
spiritual? Too often these addictions are seen merely as
biophysical explained away dismissively by claims that
Natives should just learn to control themselves. Whatever
the view, emergencies based on individual addictions are
really a public health crisis.
Seen in this way, my role as an ED nurse is to understand,
address and treat not only the immediate crisis of the
individual, but also the chronic, public health atrocities that
led to that acute crisis. On the way
to actually ridding society of the
underlying social injustices that lead
to the social crisis of addiction, I
can at least address addiction before
it becomes an acute emergency.

Whatever the view,

emergencies based on
individual addictions Becoming an Acupuncture Detox
through NADA is a
are really a public Specialist
natural fit for me to serve people
on an individual basis one ear at
health crisis.
a time, as it were as well as serve

Practically speaking, emergency

nursing is a zoomed-in practice: focus
is on the immediate moment of the
individual person, even an individual
organ. But emergencies, like anything
else, happen in context. They arise
in chronic, long-term circumstances
involving that individuals nested
spheres of influence: family,
municipality, culture, society, and
geopolitical historicity. Thus, emergencies can be seen
as chronic concerns that reach a crisis and emergency
nursing as immediate activity that addresses the crisis,
while understanding the origins of that crisis to be social
and political.

Like so many in border towns, Gallups Native residents

are subjected to profound, ongoing colonial violence
in the form of physical privation, police brutality,
disproportionate incarceration, predatory lending practices
that exacerbate poverty, pervasive and unprosecuted sexual
violence, and a murderous lack of social support that has
lead to epidemic levels of exposure deaths of houseless

my community. Specifically, I plan

to volunteer at the local detox
center, as well as make in-roads to see where detoxification
acupuncture can be offered in the ED and in the hospital
at large.

We look forward to having Rheanna and

many other healthcare practitioners from
New Mexico and other states join us at this
years pre-conference training. If you meet
them in Albuquerque, please welcome them to
the NADA family.

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A Revision to NADAs Ethics Pledge

The backbone of all NADA practice rests on the ethics

pledge whose review is a core component of the NADA
training. We appreciate the 27 points of this code which
keeps the practice of NADA safe, ethical and grounded in
local reality.
We recently revised item 13 to encourage an active
membership in the organization when providing the
NADA protocol as part of ones employment. The NADA
office provides informal consultation and support in any
and all situations. This connects members to NADA, and
keeps our community vibrant and healthy.
In over 30 years as a nonprofit organization, there
has not been a claim filed on an acudetox specialist, as
reported by the American Acupuncture Council as recently
as 2015. That is a very good record, said Kory WardCook, chief executive officer of the National Certification
Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
(NCCAOM). Ward-Cook just participated in a large-scale
revision of NCCAOMs code of conduct and has been
doing education and outreach about its new features.

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The NADA Board Grows: Meet Carolyn and Yvette

In January 2016, the NADA board voted to add two new members-at-large, Carolyn Mandrusiak
from Gabriola Island, British Columbia, and Yvette Miller from Cornelius, North Carolina.

NADA, recognized
internationally, works
its magic despite
language, culture or
status.

Carolyn

How did you get introduced to NADA?

I spent 25 years working in northern Canada in the

health and social services field, and then in 2002 I started
acupuncture college where I was introduced to NADA.
That is when I felt, this is it NADA is a wonderful way
to blend the two, West and East, because its so versatile.
NADA gives us the sense of being a part of a larger
picture it shows us that something so simple can be
effective, inexpensive and shared freely among different
sectors of society. NADA, recognized internationally,
works its magic despite language, culture or status.

What inspires you about NADA?

The Spirit of NADA itself is inspiring. It shows the basic

goodness and caring of many different people and is a
refreshing perspective. It is a way for different sectors to
work together for individual and community healing and
to work toward social change. The organization of NADA
promotes the protocol as a tool to be used locally and
worldwide, and that is also very inspiring.

What are your hopes as a NADA board member?

I have a strong interest in looking at a more

comprehensive communication strategy for the NADA
trainers and ADSes in Canada to get the Canadian
members more active. Currently there is no mechanism for
Canadian trainers to connect with each other and learn

about the many projects that are going

in Canada, as well as America and
abroad.
Being a trainer, I have felt quite
isolated in NADA because I know
very few trainers. Now that Im on the
board, it will open up opportunities
to not only meet other trainers, but to
build relationships and strategies for
further NADA programing in Canada
and elsewhere!

Another one of my other hopes is that we can look at

provincial and territorial legislation to accommodate
NADA. It is difficult to get a multi-disciplinary approach
when we are restricted by legislation. This is the case in
my home province of British Columbia, where mainly
acupuncturists can practice the NADA protocol. I was
able to train nurses, social workers, a pharmacist and
mental-health workers at a Fort Smith addiction program
in the Northwest Territories (NWT). I liked that particular
project because it pulled people together and created a nice
team. NADA can be multi-disciplinary you dont have to
have particular a position or role. Anybody can learn it.

About Carolyn Mandrusiak

Mandrusiak has lived on Gabriola Island in British

Columbia for nine years, a ferry ride away from Victoria
Island where she can access the cities of Nanaimo,
Victoria and Vancouver. She facilitates 1 to 2 NADA
trainings each year, both locally and in other provinces and
territories, mainly Alberta and the NWT. After completing
her education and training as a full-body acupuncturist, she
opened her own practice which provides both acupuncture
and counseling to its clients.
In addition to her private practice, Mandrusiak helps
develop policies and procedures in addictions and childprotective services in the Northwest Territories. When
she lived there, she served in various positions with the
Health and Social Services Board, including being a
superintendent and later a chief executive officer. She has
worked in the field of family-violence prevention and has
developed and coordinated programing for womens posttrauma healing and recovery.

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About Yvette Miller

Currently the executive medical officer for the Donor and

Client Support Center of the Red Cross, Miller started
her career in medicine as a registered nurse. She chose
nursing school first because she wanted to learn how to
provide medical care in an interactive and loving manner.
She worked in nursing for five years, first as a general
floor nurse primarily with patients living with chronic
conditions, such as hypertension, dialysis and cancer. Her
second experience was providing acute care to patients
after open-heart surgery.

Yvette
How did you get introduced to NADA?

I had a headache one day that I could not get rid of. My
friend Margaret Thornton gave me a NADA treatment,
and, 25 minutes later, the headache was gone. I thought,
whatever that is, I have to learn how to do it. Margaret was
doing a training later in that month, and I signed up for it
that same day. I use it on myself and on family and friends.
From my personal experience, I know how powerful a
modality the NADA protocol is, but I have never used it as
a practitioner.

What inspires you about NADA?

I was impressed by the diversity of the organization in
terms of the board members, the general membership
and the clients. The mission of NADA of encouraging
community wellness through the use of the protocol is
what is truly awe-inspiring. The presence of acudetox
specialists at community clinics, Veteran Stand Down
events, and after disasters is the essence of what NADA is
about being present when people are in need.

What are your hopes as a NADA board member?

One of the main strengths that I hope to bring to NADA

is my focus on the advocacy aspect of the NADA mission.
In recent months, I have been working with past NADA
president, Ken Carter, on developing a strategy to allow
non-acupuncture acudetox specialists to practice with
limited supervision in the state of North Carolina.
The NADA protocol is a critical piece to a disaster
response. I have been with the Red Cross for 20 years, and
I would like to see a relationship grow between the Red
Cross, Medical Reserve Corps and NADA.

The mission of NADA of

encouraging community wellness
through the use of the protocol is
what is truly awe-inspiring.
I took my nursing experience with me to medical school.
At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
school of medicine, her favorite subject was pathology.
I loved pathology. Ever since I was child, I have had
an investigative mind. She completed a residency in
clinical and anatomic pathology at University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, and then a
fellowship in transfusion medicine at the National
Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In her current
role, Miller manages the blood banks of all 36 national
regions of the Red Cross.
Miller is also president of Holistic Health Management,
LLC, a practice focused on promoting health and wellness
by supporting positive lifestyle changes through nutritional
counseling and other complementary medicine modalities.
Her devotion to healthy living began at an early age.
Equipped with this personal experience and her medical
training, she has devoted her practice to helping others
find balance in life.

Meet Carolyn and Yvette at the upcoming

conference in Albuquerque.

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One Needle At A Time. Dr. Michael Smith and all guest

speakers also received pins, and everyone gave a round of
applause to the recipients.
This was a very emotional experience. It was an
atmosphere of strong commitment, humility and pride
and the NADA Spirit was overwhelming in the room. The
meaning behind the title strengthening the NADA Spirit
through solidarity, dialogue and relationship was obvious.
NADA in community settings was the general theme.
Speakers came from different regions in the Philippines,
and other speakers came from Denmark, India, New
Caledonia and Thailand/Myanmar. Michael Smith came
on behalf of NADA International.

NADA pin given to all volunteers with the NADA logo and
the map of the Philippines. NADA Protocol: Healing People
One Needle At A Time.

to Lincoln Recovery Center to train as an acudetox

specialist (ADS), and to bring the NADA protocol back to
the Philippines where she was working with street children.
In 2010, she conducted the first NADA workshops, and,
in 2012, NADA Philippines was established. Only three
years later, the organization managed to have the protocol
accredited by the Philippine Institute for Traditional
and Alternative Health Care of the Department of
Health (PITAHC), so ADSes are now certified to use the
protocol in all islands of the Philippines. An extraordinary
achievement, especially considering the history of
acupuncture in the Philippines.
The forum started with the national anthem followed
by participants from different regions of the Philippines
reading reflections of their personal experience of the
NADA Spirit. They shared what it meant to them to help
the many typhoon victims and the unique way the protocol
was used in each community.
This certainly was not a meeting focusing on research!
It was a gathering of 152 ADSes sharing what several
participants called a service from the heart. As one
speaker said, One thing is the ability to give something
to other people, but the most important thing is how you
give. It must be with your heart.
Board president Janet Pimentel-Paredes opened the
forum by honoring the representatives from several
programs all over the Philippines. Photos from all trainings
were in a room on the ADS Batch Wall. ADSes from
throughout the country who had been volunteers in
different projects and missions were called on stage to
receive their NADA pins with the logo: Healing People

Dr. Isidro Sia, director-general of PITAHC, gave the

opening speech. He started his remarks by saying, I dont
have any new studies to present. I am inspired by you.
Dr. Sia has done a tremendous amount of work to get

This was a very emotional

experience. It was an
atmosphere of strong
commitment, humility and
pride and the NADA Spirit
was overwhelming in the room.
NADA into the health-care system, and his closing words
were that the next step should be documentation, noting
that the Department of Health would fund studies and
would also work to get the Philippine Health Insurance
Corporation to pay for acupuncture including the
NADA protocol.
Four different Philippine programs were presented.
Reflections on being able to act and give a healing process
to other people was at the core of the presentations. Video
documentation was shown, which made a huge impression
on all of us.
Magdalyn Tomilas and Ma.Tita Butz described a
program from the mountains in the Cordillera region. The
presentation, The NADA Protocol: Support to Indigenous
Peoples Communities in Sustaining Alternative Health
Care Practices in the Cordillera, was introduced by a
description of the culture, society and beliefs among the
indigenous people in the region.
To set up NADA training in the mountains was very
complicated. Many roads were destroyed by the typhoon
in 2014. Vehicles could not reach some villages, so the

Guidepoints News from NADA Spring Issue 2016

This certainly was not

a meeting focusing
on research! It was
a gathering of 152
ADSes sharing what
several participants
called a service from
the heart.

Michael Smith with ADSes from the Cordillera region at the 5th Philippine Forum.
Joining them are NADA Denmark founders Lars and Mette Wiinblad.

ADSes that volunteered for this mission had to reach

villages by foot. Several hundred victims of the typhoon
were treated. Afterward the victims were better able to tell
their stories and to cope with emotions. Many reported
better sleep, less anxiety and stress. Magdalyn Tomilas also
described how she as a teacher was working to get the
NADA protocol accepted by the political establishment in
the region.
Mary Ann Gabisan and Jenny Aranas are also teachers.
Their presentation, Nurturing the Spirit in the Valley,
described the programs in Compostela Valley. Healing
is an ongoing process, and it is crucial to nourish the
programs to get results. The urge to provide treatment
and healing was strongly felt by these teachers since they
themselves were trauma survivors after typhoon Bopha in
2012. They were helped by the NADA protocol and felt
a need to learn the method, so they could pass it on to
others. These teachers have set up several programs with
ADSes providing treatments on a voluntary basis. Since
2013, they have developed a prison program, have been
working with typhoon survivors, family programs and
schools.
Melinda Gallego described the 2015 Mindanao
Humanitarian Network Against Disasters program.
Because of a political conflict, 165,000 people were
displaced. Little government assistance was given to the
local civilians who suffered trauma, so several ADSes
volunteered to give treatment in the evacuation camps and
adjoining towns. The trauma survivors received the NADA
protocol as well as other modalities of healing, .
Sister Jesusa Baracena, from Santa Rafaela Maria School
in Quezon City, along with other women in her religious
community are running a program for displaced families,

and the NADA protocol is a part of the program. Sister

Baracena is an ADS, and five mothers from the involved
families have been trained so they can treat other families.
Pam Rogers and Law La Say gave a presentation on the
community-based DARE project on the border between
Thailand and Myanmar. They founded this unique project
16 years ago, and it continues to work under extremely
difficult political circumstances. Their main focus is on
drug treatment and domestic violence, and they have
projects in six villages this is about to expand to 20
villages in Myanmar. More than 200 people have been
trained in the NADA protocol during the 16 years that this
program has existed. [More on the DARE Project in the
Nov/Dec 2014 issue of Guidepoints.]
Changing habits through peer support is the core of the
program presented by NADA India. The protocol works
beyond the needles in combination with peer support.
Suneel and Pallavi Vatsyayan work with addiction in poor
and underserved neighborhoods. In order to make a
barrier- and shame-free program, they initially address the
physical diseases caused by addiction and life style (high
blood pressure, diabetes, etc.) instead of the addiction
itself. Focus is on wellbeing instead of treatment. In this
context, the clients accept the protocol as a gift. NADA
India have created a cleverly structured program based
on peer support. It is a clinical and community-based
program, reaching out to counselors, schools and families.
The last two presentations had a greater focus on the
clinical integration of NADA within program settings.
Vanessa Top works with addiction in a care center under
New Caledonia Health and Social Agency. Since 2012, she
had been working with the NADA protocol in
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PHILIPPINES continued from page 9

combination with group therapy, mindfulness and relapse
prevention. Her talk was on tobacco. In New Caledonia,
39 percent of the population smokes (a world record).
Mette Wiinblad and I represented NADA-Denmark. I
did a presentation on the use of the NADA as a tool
to reduce withdrawal symptoms with tranquilizers and
antidepressant medication in community settings, as well
as in inpatient programs. Mette Wiinblad gave a resume
of the different types of programs developed in Denmark
over the last 16 years and ideas for new directions and
partnerships.
Before the closing remarks by Dr. Vicky Ducat, Janet
Pimentel-Paredes invited everyone to the next forum
in 2017. Then all presentations were summarized with
amazing attention to details. These will eventually be put in
booklet form something I look forward to reading.
As Dr. Michael Smith said, The NADA Spirit lives in
Asia. The ADSes are proud, honored and sincere. This
is real this is evidence. This is the excellent work in the
Philippines!

10

Reflection from
Vanessa Top, one of
the presenters at the
Philippines NADA
forum who traveled
from New Caledonia:
It was really a great time
in the Philippines. I was
so honored when you
Vanessa Top and Janet Paredes
asked me to come for
the fifth congress. It was abrillant encounter: permitting
me to tell about my experience and the work I do withthe
NADA protocol.
And it was a great experience that you shared with me
allowing me to visit you in your country, my heart sister,
discovering the Philippines, its historyand culture so
welcoming and smiling getting to know your team. Such
an energetic and nice team showing our Humanity like
the NADA Spirit.

Thank you, Vanessa

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In This Spring16 Issue:

Spirit of NADA: Report From the 5th Philippine Forum

1, 8-10

Letter From the Editors

1-2

Outreach for NADA at NatCon in Vegas

3, 12

Becoming an ADS in a New Mexico Emergency Dept

NADA Ethics Pledge Revision

The NADA Board Grows: Meet Carolyn Mandrusiak

and Yvette Miller

6-7

Ken Carter (left) and Nate Hurse

(right) at the NatCon conference.
Carter spoke at the presentation, Ear
Acupuncture for Behavioral Health: Its Easy
and it Works!

One participant learns how

to apply the magnetic beads.

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discovered an acudetox specialist in the audience from
Colorado, Victoria Romero, who also volunteered to
needle.
There was a certain level of amusement at having a
behavioral health conference in the midst of the bling
and dazzle of Caesars palace and Las Vegas. Next year
the conference is slated for Seattle. Hopefully we will be

The joint NADA/Alternative

Behavioral Health booth at the
NatCon conference in Las Vegas
hosted over 100 treatments in two days.
We were busy!

there to again create a greater awareness of the impact the

NADA protocol can make in behavioral health settings.
In August, we will have a similar presence at the
National Council on Addictive Disorders conference in
Denver, where NADAs president, Libby Stuyt, will give a
presentation on NADA A Simple but Effective Tool to
Aid in the Opioid Epidemic.